# Fatah

> English word · Proper noun · frequency rank #34,884

## Definitions
1. A major Palestinian political party and the largest faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).

## Etymology
From Arabic فَتْح (fatḥ), a reverse acronym (meaning literally "conquest, victory or an outcome") for حَرَكَة اَلتَّحْرِير اَلْوَطَنِيّ اَلْفِلَسْطِينِيّ (ḥaraka(t) at-taḥrīr al-waṭaniyy al-filasṭīniyy, “Palestinian National Liberation Movement”).

## Easily confused with
- **FTA** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fatah-vs-fta)
- **fate** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fatah-vs-fate)
- **fats** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fatah-vs-fats)
- **feta** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fatah-vs-feta)
- **fatal** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fatah-vs-fatal)
- **fatty** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fatah-vs-fatty)
- **fetch** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fatah-vs-fetch)
- **fetal** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fatah-vs-fetal)
- **fitch** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fatah-vs-fitch)
- **fated** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fatah-vs-fated)
- **Fates** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fatah-vs-fates)
- **fatwa** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fatah-vs-fatwa)
- **fat** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fat-vs-fatah)
- **FAA** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/faa-vs-fatah)
- **Fata** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fata-vs-fatah)
- **faith** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/faith-vs-fatah)
- **Farah** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/farah-vs-fatah)
- **Fagan** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fagan-vs-fatah)
- **Farrah** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/farrah-vs-fatah)

## Common misspellings (7)
`aftah`, `faath`, `fatahh`, `fatha`, `fattah`, `ffatah`, `ftaah`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/fatah